Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-10-18
CONCERNING
Places Where the Character Is Brought
Out-The Gregarious Lunchers.

Places Where the Character Is Brought
Out-The Gregsrious Lunchers.
In vino veritas is an old saving that
has much Of truth in it; but it was said
by somebody when the drinking of wine
was universal. A free translation of the
proverb. for present purposes, might he
made thus: AT lunch ones real charac-
ter is revealed" The character comes
out, wine or no wine. There is the
luneher who is always thinking what
each dish costs and whether he can
afford it. He carefully studies the bill
of fare. and selects from il the cheapest
dish that his stomach can digest. He
never takes the extras-feels that he can
not afford pie or wine or the after dinner
coffee that is indispensable TO the r
epicure. He eats because he has TO live,
and gets very little enjoyment u Of il.
He grudges the quarter that he spends
daily. and goes into elaborate mental cal
culations as TO how much he could save
in the course Of a year il he only could
60 without an" lunch at all. Three
hundred DAYS 10 twenty-five cents a day
makes So a yga,, which would buy five
suits Of clothes or pay rent for two
months LAS, that man was made
with a stomach that requires filling so
often!
Then thee Ia the mncher who has
plenty Of money, hut no appetite; who is
hlase in the matter of food. who spends
81 n day for his midday reflection. and
yet gets little satisfaction out of il.
These two are. perhaps, equally un-
happy. Blessed is the man who has a
good appetite. II he cannot afford more.
his five cent sandwich and piece Of pie.
washed down with q five rent glass u
milk. affords him more real enjoyment
than Delmunicu's choicest dalnties afford
the stated millionaire. II. by chance. he
makes a lucky strike, and can command
half a dollar. how lac revels in the cut Of
roast beef. the glass Of ale and the pie
and French coffee that make up what
, seems 10 him Il p~rincely banquet.
See the good natured man. How the
humor in him, developed by the process
Of eating and drinking, shines ont in
every word and look and gesture, At
lunch, the foquacious become more talk
alive; the reserved more silent: the eco
nomical more sparing of money; the
imaginative, holder and sometimes more
unveracious; the witty. quicker and hap
pier in their turns Of thought and phrase.
Il is the gregnrious lunchers who get
the most pleasure out of their incoming. !"
There are dozens Of places, high and
low. where day after day the same com.
pany Of two or four. or half a dozen,
meet at lunch time. These are not Of
the hurried sort, who must get through
as quickly as possible, and be back at the
office in half an hour from the time oi
leaving. They take three-quarters Of an
hour at table. They tell stories. talk per-
sonal gossip. discourse IN politics, horse
racing. baseball. OF whatever topic comes
uppermost.
This is all carried on in a good natured
way that ought to, and probably does,
aid digestion wonderfully.
A word should he said about the rest
less luncher, who is never satisfied 10 60
two days consecutivelyHot the same place;
who is always looking up new restau-
rant and who. in consequence. is badly
served more than hail the time. Some
men are constructed in this scattering
kind If way. and cannot he Lappy with
out constant change: but they have the
worst Of it in the long rum. A. Stew
art in The Epoch.